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I think you're possibly generalising your own experience to the masses. That's absolutely not the case for me.

I love learning to learn. I learned programming because I found a quick basic compiler / IDE on my dad's computer, along with some shipped examples, and it was actually magic to me.

I read our encyclopedias as a kid because it was just really cool. Likewise, I did physics in university not for a job (the jobs are shit), but because it gives me that feeling of expansive possibility and wonder that Carl Sagan gave me when I watched Cosmos growing up.

Most of my most passionate self learnings came about because of that feeling of magic, not because I was chasing an end goal.

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> I think you're possibly generalising your own experience to the masses

Yeah, that's fair and probably true, it's limited to my own experience and the experiences of the people around me, not gonna claim it's universal so you're right.

> I did physics in university [...]

My comment is also explicitly not about you and your type ;)

> Most of my most passionate self learnings came about because of that feeling of magic, not because I was chasing an end goal

One could argue that the end goal you were chasing was feeling that magic again :) Jest aside, I do understand what you mean.